Popularity-contest consumes 100% CPU
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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popularity-contest (Ubuntu) |
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
1) Ubuntu 14.04.3
2) 1.57ubuntu1 0
3) I expect no non-critical background process to consume all my CPU.
4) My system bogged down and running `top` I saw that a program called popularity-contest was consuming all my CPU. Apparently, this is a standard Ubuntu background service that logs which apps I use. Although that's a little disconcerting, I don't have a problem with that type of stat collection as long as I'm aware of it and it doesn't interfere with my normal usage. As a result, I've uninstalled this package.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: popularity-contest 1.57ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-65-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.15
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Wed Oct 28 11:37:08 2015
PackageArchitec
SourcePackage: popularity-contest
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2015-04-19 (191 days ago)